First SEC PPD: Vandy-Mizzou
Dores only had 56 scholarship players available Saturday vs. South Carolina, but the numbers have apparently taken a turn for the worse since then.
https://twitter.com/PowerMizzoucom/status/1315729374415552514?s=19
Probably just a contact tracing precaution rather than actual case-related, but still unfortunate (as an alum of both institutions; I know most people couldn't care less about these 2 programs).
October 12th, 2020 at 3:30 PM ^
I'm sure they had no issues postponing a low-key "no one gives a crap" game like Mizzou-Vandy. Would they ever do that for a game like UGA-Florida, LSU-Alabama, or Alabama-Auburn?
I have my doubts.
October 12th, 2020 at 3:35 PM ^
LSU probably wouldn't mind postponing the Alabama game until next year. That defense...yeeesh
October 12th, 2020 at 3:55 PM ^
Alabama is going to be out for blood in that game after losing last year. The only thing LSU has going for it is that the game is in Baton Rouge, but I don't think its going to make a difference.
I could see Saban going for style points and beating LSU something like 56-21.
October 12th, 2020 at 5:48 PM ^
Or this Saturday's game at the Swamp? Dan Mullen is willing to spread COVID between 90,000 fans just to go up against LSU's RichRod like defense.
October 12th, 2020 at 3:40 PM ^
Testing will be at a minimum in Athens and Tuscaloosa this week.
October 12th, 2020 at 4:43 PM ^
A dearth of testing?
October 12th, 2020 at 3:40 PM ^
Titans now Vandy, some real stuff is going on in Nashville
October 12th, 2020 at 4:45 PM ^
Which is odd given Davidson/Nashville has the strictest, or at least has had, the strictest masking and other Covid related restrictions here in central Tennessee by far. I haven't been paying attention as I haven't been down there since this all started, but I thought they were generally doing ok. Everything entertainment related got canceled so there isn't any real reason to go to Nashville, at least at my age.
October 12th, 2020 at 4:57 PM ^
Well, maybe no reason for anyone not from nashville to go there, which is pretty much the case for every place everywhere but a lot of people still live there. Obviously a lot of people go to school there.
Strictness of restrictions doesn't seem to matter much anywhere. More about compliance and young people just aren't complying anywhere.
Is this just isolated though or is Nashville as a whole experiencing a spike?
October 12th, 2020 at 5:10 PM ^
That's just it, I haven't heard Davidson is having a spike at all. I see The Tennessean (newspaper) is trying to manufacture some news by calling some of the rural counties a spike every time we get a few hospitalizations, but I've not seen a thing on Nashville/Davidson county. That made me "assume" everything was fine there or they would be making more noise about them.
It makes me wonder if maybe it's localized to sports medicine? Do they share phsycians/medical staff? Vandy is the premier medical institution in town. I would assume someone a lot smarter than I am would have thought of that by now though.
October 12th, 2020 at 10:49 PM ^
Nashville area is a hot zone. I'm just north of the border and we in KY have to answer questions like "have you been to TN in last 14 days" just to go to the eye doctor.
The superspreader Bethel concert last night won't help either.
October 12th, 2020 at 7:42 PM ^
That is odd...it’s almost as if masks don’t matter.
October 12th, 2020 at 8:26 PM ^
They do but you're not going to believe it, regardless.
October 12th, 2020 at 10:30 PM ^
They don't, but you're entitled to your "science" just as I am mine. There are many in the medical community that are questioning the narrative and have proven ineffectiveness but they are easily dismissed as misinformation, and then credibility is attacked and facebook/google/youtube/twitter swoop in to censor.
You can link 20 articles mainly from mainstream news and government institutions, but I've lost faith in them to report accurately. Nice to have a somewhat respectable exchange of ideas/opinion though. The mask is meant to divide this country further, as are other societal issues, but I digress.
October 13th, 2020 at 11:06 AM ^
I guess, in a way, it must be nice to know a famous writer was describing your philosophical underpinnings. Or, lack thereof.
October 12th, 2020 at 10:00 PM ^
Which is one of the reasons why Japan, a country which has not had a stringent lockdown but where people have been wearing masks heavily for years, has had less than 2000 COVID-19 deaths. (That would be roughly 6000 if they had a population the size of the US.)
Seriously. Masks are a pain in the ass they're not perfect, but wearing them helps.
October 12th, 2020 at 10:38 PM ^
Which is pretty much the conclusion I've come to. It can't hurt to wear them, and it can to not do so. Whenever I go somewhere I can't keep my distance I wear one.
The science isn't perfect on their benefits, but I'm convinced that's because people act like they are invincible when they have a piece of fabric covering their face.
October 12th, 2020 at 6:51 PM ^
Clay Travis...Super Spreader
October 12th, 2020 at 3:41 PM ^
If this happens to M in either of the first 2 weeks, I'm gonna need you guys to talk me off a ledge. I f*cking need this!!!
October 12th, 2020 at 3:47 PM ^
What is the B1G plan for rescheduling a postponed game?
October 12th, 2020 at 3:49 PM ^
No postponing because there are no bye weeks
October 12th, 2020 at 3:51 PM ^
My guess is first tell everyone it's not going to happen. Then leak some info to a bunch of hack sports analysts who can begin speculation. Then do nothing for a few weeks, then have the President of the United States say he will get it rescheduled, then deny all of that. Then reschedule for some time in mid May
October 12th, 2020 at 4:14 PM ^
At least we are currently undefeated.
October 12th, 2020 at 8:10 PM ^
And rising in the polls!
October 12th, 2020 at 3:45 PM ^
Believe as many as 125 players are on a college football squad now (active roster). Not sure why they can't find 22 to play a game?
October 12th, 2020 at 3:50 PM ^
Not sure about the B1G, but SEC rules say you need 53 active scholarship players available to participate any given Saturday.
October 12th, 2020 at 3:55 PM ^
That's to get the cumulative gpa above the minimum for academic eligibility
October 12th, 2020 at 3:52 PM ^
Tentatively rescheduled for 12/12
https://twitter.com/vuhustlersports/status/1315741414551162886?s=19
October 12th, 2020 at 4:42 PM ^
HP - Did you get your doctorate from Michigan? Humblebrag alumnus of 3 institutions?
What about Leningrad State University?
October 12th, 2020 at 4:48 PM ^
I applied to CREES, but they weren't interested in my dissertation on the Great Northern War.
October 12th, 2020 at 5:09 PM ^
Center for Russian and East European Studies?
October 12th, 2020 at 8:44 PM ^
Undergrad Vandy, grad Mizzou, but I did a lot of postgrad work at different institutes in Petrograd, yes.
October 12th, 2020 at 4:43 PM ^
As the child and sibling of three Mizzou alums and the grandchild of an emeritus prof and physics dept head at Mizzou, the Tigers have always been the CFB program I root hardest for after Michigan.
October 12th, 2020 at 4:49 PM ^
The two years I spent in Columbia for grad school were amazing. It's an underrated college town.
October 12th, 2020 at 4:58 PM ^
During every summer I was kid until I was 12 my family stopped off in Columbia on our way out to or coming back from Colorado to spend time with the grandparents. I learned at an early age what a hot, muggy summer really was.
October 12th, 2020 at 5:43 PM ^
My father worked in ag climate research and the extension service at Mizzou in the early 80s, studying the potential impact of the increase of CO2 on climate, the economy, and everything in between. Then the administration in Washington at the time decided that that was not a good use of research dollars and axed the funding. I spent one summer of my college years there and enjoyed it quite a bit. Being the only legal adult on a summer rec league softball team made me a dozen new friends very quickly.
October 12th, 2020 at 5:43 PM ^
I'm guessing that means you hate Nebraska's illegal kick in 1997 a little more than the rest of us.
October 12th, 2020 at 6:27 PM ^
That would be correct.
October 12th, 2020 at 7:12 PM ^
Also true for us Missourians/Mich grads. (And there are lots of us).
October 12th, 2020 at 5:11 PM ^
EEESSSEEEESSSEEEE
October 12th, 2020 at 5:18 PM ^
It just means more
October 12th, 2020 at 6:10 PM ^
Yup, don't give a crap about either and that's probably the only reason why they postponed it. Coach O would just tell his players to suck it up.
btw, how in the heck did you end up going the those two schools? Seems like they have nothing in common.
October 12th, 2020 at 8:49 PM ^
There's s story. But let's just say I was in Petersburg after college and "recruited" to be a part of the brand new Russian graduate program at Mizzou.
October 12th, 2020 at 8:33 PM ^
Probably be one of the only ones PPD or cancelled. Everyone else in the SEC went the Herd Immunity route.
